EU bureaucrats should be more modest

A dispute has broken out in Brussels over higher salaries for almost 50,000 EU civil servants. The EU Commission wants to up their salaries by 3.7 percent, while member countries can only go along with half that in these times of crisis. The conservative daily Lidové Noviny lends the countries its support: "In times of economic difficulty, the best-paid bureaucrats in the world are demanding that their salaries be raised. And the Commission gives them its support, flying in the face of its otherwise neurotically repeated slogan that Europe is there for its citizens. Why this massive pay hike? Because according to their contracts the public servants have a right to it. But it's up to others to fork out the money. It's a good thing the Czech Republic is among those countries demanding modest conduct of their Eurocrats - and of everyone else."

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